response to warning

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rose,

 

if you don't live in earthquake territory you live in hurricane or tornado

territory or various other types of natural occurences. i don't think these

things are some " message " from someone saying don't live there. i don't want

to live my life and base my needs around these kinds of things, i would be

moving all over the place running from it, and i could just as easily and

more likely suffer some other smaller and more individual disaster like

getting hit by a bus. there is safety and perparedness and there is

paranoia. i am a massage therapist living someplace where natural healthcare

is prominent and there is lots of education and likeminded people easily

accessible. i am surrounded by profound beauty of two mountain ranges, many

lakes and rivers, saltwater, islands, etc. which is also very important to

me. it weighs out at a higher benefit to me than moving someplace with the

illusion of safety. i don't think there is some higher being that cares what

part of rock we live on, we just have to decide what we are willing to

accept along with the things that are important to us. i am lucky to live in

a place where the kind of discussions that happen on this list are

commonplace in everyday life. my point in telling that story to begin with

was relevant to enduring through scary things, and trusting that however it

turns out something useful will come of it and the support you need will be

there somehow. the point was also not letting fear dictate decisions and

keep you from listening to your soul. the point was not me taking ridiculous

life threatening risk for some cheap thrill. the point was not the

earthquake, that was just the biggest obvious and somewhat humorous context

to illustrate what i wanted to share.

 

~kimberlee

 

> I MUST reply!

> I would not live in earthquake territory! OR, behind a DYKE or Dike(?)

OR

> along the Mississippi river. Sometimes, I believe the 'Universe' is KIND

> enough to WARN US! This has nothing to do with Fear! It has more to do

with

> simple Common sense! OOHHH I can hear my hate mail!. HEED a message from

> the 'Earth'! So, you loose everything! You would anyway! Just live to

tell

> your story. Or, will this email be your epetaph (can't spell)

> Would you live in a city block where there are 10 rapes, two murders a

week?

> month?

> I have always been a skeptic about the --'Death Limits' that people go

> through for thrills, and what they put others through for that thrill!

> Then again, --what do we really have to loose, anyway? --food for

thought!

> Rose

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